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qzu
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Location: Rome, Italy
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 Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:06 pm Post subject: Gentoo on SGI Octane2 |
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Hello hobbists and pros!
I'm having a really hard time into installing Gentoo on Silicon Graphics hardware!
I'm the proud owner of an Octane2 ("IP30") with:
- 512 megs RAM
- R12000 single CPU
- V6 graphics (aka Odissey)
I've got no cdrom reader! I've tried really hard to adapt the 2006 SGI LiveCD from here:
http://ba.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/gentoo/experimental/mips/livecd/x-rc6/
to be "burnt" and booted from an hard drive with no success.
Then I built from scratch a Gentoo installation on a virtual machine on my modern pc.
From there, I'm literally STRUGGLING to compile a MODERN kernel for the Octane to boot from and to proceed with a current stage3 install.
The older - prebuilt - kernels that can be found online don't allow to use newer stage3! You can find the
kernels here:
https://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/old-netboot/testing/
Did support stopped in 2006?
On the virtual machine I've managed to install the "mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-8.2.0" crosscompiler using crossdev:
| Code: | crossdev -s1 --target mips64-unknown-linux-gnu
gcc-config mips64-unknown-linux-gnu-8.2.0 |
I've installed mips-sources tailored for my system with
| Code: | | USE="ip30" emerge --ask sys-kernel/mips-sources |
I've customized .config following various tutorials... finger crossed... but no avail:
| Code: | | make vmlinux modules CROSS_COMPILE=mips64-unknown-linux-gnu- |
...fails with a generic error!I can provide more details if requested!
Hope I sort out this mess!!!
Thanks to anyone willing to help!
Cheers,
qzu |
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xaviermiller
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on Alternative Architectures.
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Kind regards,
Xavier Miller |
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qzu
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2019 2:43 pm Post subject: Kumba patches |
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Sorry Xavier for the inconvenience.
Did anyone ever used those patches?
https://dev.gentoo.org/~kumba/mips/patches/
Does the mips-sources version and patch version shall be identical?
What are the steps to accomplish that?
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qzu
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| Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2019 6:21 pm Post subject: CDRECORD arguments |
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Hello everyone!
Finally found an external scsi cdrom drive... Tested and working under IRIX: copied huge files from a cd and tested with "diff".
I'm trying to burn the LiveCD img file.
This:
| Code: | | cdrecord -vv -pad dev=6,2,0 -tao livecd.img |
Doesn't work! Can't even load Sash because of a "seek" unrecoverable error... I may take a screenshot tomorrow.
Anyone can help with the correct tweaks with cdrecord arguments to burn this strange, hybrid "beast" of a CD image?
Thank you very much,
Francesco |
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